Covering means.



PAUL GROEBER, OF RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY.

COVERING MEANS.

Applicationcfiled m 23, 1907,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 16, 1909.

Serial No. 375,370. Renewed August 1 1908. Serial No. 446,409.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, PAUL GROEBER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Rutherford, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Covering Means, ofwhich the following is a specification. g

This invention relates to improvements in covering means such as areused for covering walls, and boxes, somewhat in the nature of wall paperor fabrics or leather used for covering walls.

The object of my invention is to provide such a covering which has theappearance of.

silk and is water proof or Washable and can be formed of a body of paperfabric, leather, etc., and can be made in the original color of saidpaper fabric or leather, etc., or can be given any desired color and mayhave printed thereon ornaments, flowers, designs, etc, in one or more.colors, all of which shows the silk effect in appearance.

In describing the manner of making my improved covering I will describethis covering as being made on a base of paper. This pa per, for examplesuch as is commonly used for wall paper, is first provided with acoating composed of a binder, such as starch, dextrin, casein, etc.,dissolved in warm water and mixed with mica pulverized for example, tothe consistency of ordinary flour. This mixture is carefully andthoroughly stirred and applied on the ,paper while warm and isthoroughly rubbed in by .means of brushes and other appliances so as 'tobe fully absorbed by the paper. In case the finished article is to havethe original color of the paper no color is mixed with this firstcoatingmixture but if the covering is to have a ground color then the suitableshade of color is mixed with the dextrin or other binder and pulverizedmica the color used being one that is soluble in water and may be of ananilin oxid or any other suitable pigment. The paper with the groundcoating on it is then dried. In case the covering. is to be providedwith ornaments in one or more colors for example, like ordinary wallpaper then these colors are printed on the ground in the same manner asthey are now printed on Wall paper or produced thereon in any othersuitab e manner butthe mixture of these ap lied colors is also composedof a binder suc as ering color and earth color anddextrin or starch andpulverized mica. The sheet of paper is dried and then is provided with asecond or finishing coating which is also composed of a binder such asdextrin, starch, etc., pulverized mica, water and paraffin dissolved inkerosene or some other hydro carbon, and this second or finishingcoating is applied warm and when dried the paper isrun through hotembossing rollers which emboss any desired design upon the same- Thepaper thus may have its natural original color and be provided with twocolorless coatings and then finally be embossed, or, the

plain paper after having received the first coating may have producedthereon in color any desired design and then the second colorlessfinishing coating may be applied and then the paper embossed in themanner stated, or the first coating may be colored so that the paper hasa uniform body color or ground and the second or finishing coating maybe colored likewise and then the paper embossed, or, the paper may beprovided witha colored ground in the manner stated and then the ornamentprinted thereon in color and then a colorless finishing coating appliedthereon and then the paper em bossed. Of course fabric, leather andother similar material may be treated in the same manner.

Having described my invention what 1. claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a covering composed of a flexiblebody and pro vided with a finishing coating composed of a mixture of abindersoluble in water, pulverized mica and, hydro carbon, substantiallyas set forth.

2. As a new' article of manufacture, acovcomposed of a flexible body andp1'o vided with a finishing coating composed of a mixture of a binder,pulverized mica and a hydro carbon, and color, substantially as setforth.

'3. As a new article of manufacture, a covering having a flexible bodyprovided with a ground coating, composed of a binder, pulverized mica,and a finishing coating. composed of a binder, pulverized mica and ahydro carbon, substantially as set forth.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a covering having a flexible body,provided with a ground coating, composed of a binder 'stantially assoluble in Water end pnlverized mi therewith, an ornament prlntedground, in colors mixed with a binder soluble day of May A. D., 190

and a finished of a binder of i and a hydro carbon; subpulverized mica,

of a mixture in Waterand coating composed pulverized mica,

set forth. v

ca. mixed I Signed sit Rutherfor Witnesses OSCAR F. GUNz,

d in the county of on said Bergen and State of New Jersey this 21st PAULGROEBER.

PAUL GRQEBER, Jr.

